[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Senior User Interface/Visual Designer, Houston TX, Hewlett Packard, Full Time

[Lim, Nicky]

Title: Senior User Interface/Visual Designer

Salary: $100K base, depending on experience 

Location: Houston, TX

 

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is making the computer personal again!

 

HP works to understand the world and make ideas happen. Its innovative
and exciting Corporate Design organization is responsible for the
conceptualization and development of customer-focused new products. This
includes research, creating form, aesthetics, physical and software
interfaces and system compatibility. Corporate Design collaborates with
other business functions involved in the new customer-focused product
development process to make Design a strategic company-wide capability.
Customer insight drives design strategy.

 

HP is seeking an exceptional Senior UI/UX Designer to help drive the
next generation of HP software products. This is an opportunity to
deliver world-class products reaching millions of customers. This
individual will need an entrepreneurial sprit and be able to communicate
good design practices and principles. This person will also work closely
with Industrial Designers, Human Factors Specialists and Marketing
Personnel to develop and execute interfaces that invoke
Hewlett-Packard's "Invent" spirit. This role will contribute to driving
HP design attitude and design language across the ecosystem of the
Personal Systems Group.

 

The Senior User Interface Designer will report to the UI Design Manager.


 

Responsibilities

 

As the UI expert on the team, the Senior User Interface Designer
will/must:

*Discover and design new user experiences, create interactive
design mockups, establish and produce visual assets, and write
behavioral documentation needed for proper design implementation.

*Deliver and communicate successful customer/user-focused
software design solutions that drive business success.

*Provide direction to/guide outside firms or other external
resources, as necessary, in the creation and use of standards and
guidelines.

*Select appropriate methods and deliverables to meet project,
schedule and budget constraints.

 

Requirements

 

Superior Hands-On Visual User Interface/Design Skills

*   An outstanding body of work demonstrating the successful
delivery of innovative interface design solutions, including developing
standards and guidelines 
*   Knowledge of User Centered Design Methodologies 

*Strong working knowledge of information architecture, task-flow
models, wireframing, design specifications and guidelines.
*Ability to define the architecture, navigation, user flows,
experiences and information/interaction designs that effectively and
directly solves customer needs.

 

Technology Skills & Experience

*   Ability to incorporate innovative technologies to drive business
success 
*   Ability to work with programmers to make the highly conceptual
real 
*   Software development experience 
*   Expert-level knowledge of graphic design tools such as Adobe
Photoshop and Illustrator 
*   Advanced knowledge using tools such as Flash, Director and/or
AfterEffects for developing visual prototypes 
*   Experience with WPF/AIR/FLEX/Expression Studio/Linux a plus 
*   Knowledge of sound design and production, motion graphics,
photography and non-linear video editing is a plus. 

 

Team Leadership and Cross-function Influence

*   Ability to effectively drive or facilitate the efforts of
multi-disciplinary teams in generating and selecting optimum design
solutions 
*   Ability to synthesize customer insights, insights from design
and other colleagues, and management objectives and to translate them
into actionable design requirements 
*   Ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex situations
in a very fast-paced environment and balance between conceptual design
and technical execution 
*   Ability to contribute to developing the HP brand by executing
user interface design consistently and driving customer experience
through product experience 

 

Winning Personality Attributes

*   Have a passion for simple, usable UI design in conjunction with
a strong belief that form follows function. 
*   An entrepreneurial spirit 
*   A natural diplomat with strong communication and organizational
skills 

 

Qualifications

*   A degree in visual/interaction design or equivalent professional
experience 
*   Minimum 6 years experience in a visual or user experience design
role 

 

To apply, please send your resume and work samples to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and please put IxDA #4112 in the subject line.

 

 

 


Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unsubscribe  http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe
List Guidelines  http://www.ixda.org/guidelines
List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help

[IxDA Discuss] JOB; Sr. Human Factor/Interaction Designer, MI,Recruiter,Full time

[Lim, Nicky]

Job #: 4086
Title: Senior Human Factors/Interaction Designer
Location: on Lake Michigan, within 90 minutes of Chicago
Compensation: competitive base and potentially very generous bonus, plus
excellent large company benefits

Design is at the heart of our client Whirlpool Corporation, a global
consumer products company driven by innovation and design in their quest
to help people manage and enjoy their lives by providing products that
appeal to both their hearts and minds. They are searching for a Senior
Human Factors/Interaction Designer to join their burgeoning Usability
and Interaction Design team.

Whirlpool is developing an entirely new User Interface and Experience
strategy. They need a Human Factors/Interaction Designer who would be
excited to seize the opportunity to bring innovation to a product
category, which is at a cross-roads and which is hungry to take
advantage of rich new media for its next generation of UI. He/she will
deliver new user experiences to the entirety of Whirlpool's family of
home appliances - in all categories and across their multitude of brands
- and will partner with multi-disciplinary teams of world-class product
designers, software engineers, category engineers, and new media/visual
designers, as well as external, strategic partners, to create user
experiences that standout in the marketplace.

Responsibilities include:

*   Creating, developing and implementing user interaction design
*   Modeling the user-centered design process throughout the product
development process
*   Planning, developing and executing project plans, based on
user-centered design principles and accepted product development
processes. 
*   Creating interaction design concepts and roadmaps for regions
and brands
*   Conducting human factors and usability studies at the
appropriate times during product development
*   Managing project resources to deliver exceptional results
against agreed to plans and timelines
*   Collaborating with other human factors and interaction design
professionals to develop and grow a world-class organization

 

Requirements:

 

Balance of skills

*   Outstanding user interaction design talent, demonstrated through
a superior portfolio
*   Systems thinking
*   Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills
*   Strong project planning skills, including proposals, work
breakdown schedules, resource planning, and project reviews
*   Demonstrated skill applying user-centered design practices,
e.g., ethnography, user needs analysis, participatory design and
usability testing
*   Ability to create and prototype designs using popular
interaction design tools

 

Relevant experience/expertise

*Expertise in hard product design, particularly consumer
handheld products, would be ideal. Very willing to consider medical
and/or governmental/industrial products and systems, as well as rich
media-driven software and web experience, coupled with a passion for or
interest in developing UI for physical product

*Experience working in accordance with rigorous product
development processes

 

Winning attributes

*Passion for professional discovery and growth

*Driven to deliver business results through professional
leadership

*Relish working in an inclusive community with interdisciplinary
teams

*Ability to embody Whirlpool core values of respect, integrity,
diversity and teamwork

 

Criteria:

*   4+ years of industry experience
*   Graduate degree in Human Factors, Interaction Design, Psychology
or a related discipline is preferred.

 

Whirlpool's centralized design organization, Global Consumer Design
(GCD), is an internationally acclaimed, cross-functional, multi-regional
organization that is business focused and that believes in the
demonstrable value of design and in the social responsibility of
designers. They are renowned for their rigorous, customer-centric design
process, which has transformed their company into the #1 global company
in their industry. Throughout their 90+ years of history, they have
generated the most well-known and well-respected portfolio of brands. 

 

Unlimited career prospects; Whirlpool encourages employees to map their
future. They are committed to the growth of their designers and offer
opportunities for development regionally and internationally.

 

Email resume (Word or PDF preferred. No JPEGs.) and work samples (PDF or
PowerPoint less than 3MB) to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with job #4086 in the
subject line.

 

 

Nicky Lim

Associate

RitaSue Siegel Resources

an Aquent company

162 Fifth Avenue, 11th floor

New York, NY 10010 

View Location on Map
 

www.ritasue.com  

 

T + 212 682 2100 (office)

T + 212 367 2312 (direct)

F + 212 682 2946

 

RitaSue contributes as a Panelist for Business Week's 2007 Talent Hunt

[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Sr. Manager JOB, UI Design, DES Video Merchant Services, Vancouver, WA, Hewlett Packard, Full Time

[Lim, Nicky]

Title: Sr. Manager, UI Design, DES Video Merchant Services

Location: Vancouver, WA

Compensation: $140-$160,000 base, depending on experience

 

Hewlett Packard (HP) Digital Entertainment Services (DES) enables
retailers and etailers to sell licensed video titles in highly
innovative ways and connects people with compelling content in simple
and intuitive ways - to offer consumers ways to find what they want to
watch, when, where and how they want to watch it.

 

DES is poised to own the territory of full service online video stores
and NextDayTV titles for retail store discovery and intend to continue
to create and maintain the best-of-breed sites and online channels. The
Video Merchant Services (VMS) team within DES is responsible for full
site design, consumer experience, content delivery, fulfillment, online
marketing and back end operations. They enable not just traditional DVD
sales but multiple formats including digital downloads, DVD
Manufactured-On-Demand, and portable device files. VMS needs to grow
their team quickly to accommodate the needs of major retailers in the
sales pipeline.

 

The DES group is seeking a Senior Manager of UI Design to report to the
head of VMS Product Management. The Senior Manager will own the consumer
experience, design language, look and feel and tone of merchant sites
and will manage the web/visual design and related creative processes
(graphic design, layout, copywriting) for both custom and private label
deployments. He/she will work closely with product management, managers
of web development and business development to define and deliver the
customer experience of the DES product offerings. 

 

Responsibilities

The Senior Manager of UI Design should be a thought leader who can
steer, improve and enhance the experience for merchant customers'
websites. His/her overall responsibilities will include identifying and
managing creative contractors and agencies as well as hiring a full time
team as the VMS group expands. He/she should also be skilled in hands on
information architecture, interaction design, usability, and visual
design.

 

Requirements:

 

Hands-On User Experience Design Expertise

*   Should be well versed in user centered design - experience in
researching consumer behavior, developing unique consumer insights
through to performing task analysis

*   Experience leading interaction design efforts from persona
definition to user flows to wireframes to visual design

*   Experience in information architecture and interaction design

*   Practical knowledge of web design best practices, including
processes and lifecycles

*   Practical knowledge in effective marketing and instructional copy
writing

 

Strategic Thinking, Marketing and Business Knowledge

*   Understanding and experience in influencing e-commerce marketing
objectives (on-line consumer experience, site navigation, content
merchandising and promotion, conversion metrics) 

*   Experience translating marketing and business objectives into
winning design strategies and solutions that deliver against them

 

Relevant Experience

*Experience working on high-traffic, consumer-facing, preferably
Fortune 1000 e-commerce sites

*Experience with online digital media - video, music, games

 

 

People, Resource and Project Management Skills 

*   Experience in motivating and managing creative talent - in-house,
creative agencies and/or contractors (ETWs)

*   Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to manage
and prioritize project work

*   Ability to define and manage budgets and resources

*   Ability to manage multiple parallel program schedules/milestones

 

Technology Knowledge and Skills

*   Should be a thought leader in web 2.0/3.0

*   Knowledge of design tools (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite) to create
workflows, wireframes, and visual mock ups that are delivered to web
developers for production implementation

*   General understanding of current web design technologies (e.g. HTML,
CSS, Flash, AJAX, Ruby) and the capabilities of modern web browsers and
plug-ins

*   Working knowledge of web search, personalization, and social
networking concepts strongly desired

 

Winning Attributes

*   Ability to translate concepts into depictions that others can
quickly understand to advance collaboration

*   Ability to thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment, e.g. can
quickly prioritize tasks and optimize resources, deciding on the most
efficient and effective way to get things done

 

Qualifications

*   Minimum of 5 years of experience in interaction design

*   At least 3 in consumer web application design

 

Email resume (Word or PDF preferred. No JPEGs.) and work samples (PDF or
PowerPoint less than 3MB) to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with job #4092in the
subject line.

 

 

Nicky Lim

Associate

RitaSue Siegel Resources

an Aquent company

162 Fifth Avenue, 11th floor

New York, NY 10010 

View Location on Map